for Research

Fielding Graduate University provides its students, faculty, and alumni with an array of resources that support their research.  These include access to databases and software, university-funded grants for research support, a full array of services to support external grant seeking, and of course our amazing Dianne Kipnes Library resources and a highly effective Institutional Review Board (IRB).

Research Resources and Internal Grants

Many Fielding researchers use software to support their research and the university provides access to researchers, based on specific criteria, to the following research packages:

• Qualtrics software for survey development and deployment
• SPSS software for quantitative data analysis
• Research Match institutional membership for recruiting study participants
• Instats institutional membership for statistical training and support

The Office of Research funds Faculty Research Grants that support Fielding faculty conducting an early-stage research project, hiring graduate research assistants, recruiting, and compensating study participants, publishing and presenting results along with student co-researchers, and undertaking activities that develop and enhance their own research skills.

In addition, Fielding graduate students are eligible for funding for presenting research at an external conference as well as for a range of university-funded research grants and dissertation awards.  Go to Financial Aid >>>

Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP)

Fielding’s Office of Sponsored Programs) supports both pre- and post-grant award activities for the institution, supporting faculty and students in seeking and applying for external grants, as well as monitoring awarded grants for compliance and programmatic and financial reporting responsibilities, in collaboration with the university’s Finance office.

The Office of Sponsored Programs administers the university’s subscription to the GrantForward database (www.grantforward.com), a robust database of grant opportunities that allows researchers to search, bookmark, organize, and share grant opportunities.  GrantForward searches can included detailed keyword, geographic, size, and other criteria, and saved search results can be received in daily or weekly emails.  GrantForward also offers an array of other benefits, including researcher profiles that allow researchers to match with one another as well as with funding opportunities.

The Office of Sponsored Programs maintains a monthly faculty bulletin of grants and grant-related information, offers regular workshops on research and grant topics, and helps researchers with managing the grant seeking and writing process: searching for a grant opportunity, reviewing and assessing the RFP or guidelines, setting up outlines and timelines, preparing institutional information, developing the budget, reviewing and editing, ensuring that everything is complete, and submitting the proposal.   

Library                 

The Diane Kipnes Library is a fully electronic research library staffed by professional librarians.  The Library includes access to 300,000 ebooks, 60,000 scholarly journals, thousands of online dissertations, and streaming video resources including clinical interview videos, as well as access to interlibrary loan services for items not in the library’s core holdings.  Librarians offer instructional seminars and research appointments for individuals and groups online via web conferencing as well as during in-person sessions.  A robust array of online tutorials, guides, and support resources are always available.

https://library.fielding.edu

Institutional Review Board (IRB)

As required by federal law, Fielding Graduate University maintains a committee charged with the oversight of all social, behavioral and educational research with human subjects (research participants) conducted at Fielding Graduate University and to ensure that research participants’ rights are adequately protected. To accomplish this, the IRB reviews, approves the initiation of, and performs continuing review of human subjects’ research as directed by the institution’s Federal Wide Assurance, or FWA – an agreement between Fielding and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP). (link to IRB)